In a determined effort to alleviate the burden of neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) across the continent, African health experts convened in the Togolese capital, Lomé, issuing a strong call for ...

For many first-time travellers to Africa, the idea of sleeping outside in the wild is met with intrigue ... After all, Hollywood has done an excellent job of painting the African wilderness as ...

What if we could obtain the memory, learning and perception benefits of “power naps” without actually sleeping? The team first trained five monkeys on a task evaluating image orientations and ...

Motion sickness is a very common condition that affects about one in three people, but the brain circuits involved are largely unknown. In a study published in Nature Metabolism, researchers at ...

South African Ambassador to the US Ebrahim Rasool returned to Cape Town amid cheering crowds. He was declared persona non grata and expelled after criticizing US President Donald Trump. Ebrahim ...

Vestibular neurons link motion sickness, behavioural thermoregulation and metabolic balance in mice. Nature Metabolism , 2025; DOI: 10.1038/s42255-025-01234-9 Cite This Page : ...

and conducting comprehensive in vitro and in vivo studies to validate the efficacy and safety of repositioned drugs for individuals infected with trypanosomiasis. Through the application of Random ...

Millions of people worldwide are affected by African sleeping sickness, Chagas disease and other life-threatening infections caused by microscopic parasites borne by insects such as the tsetse fly.

This malady should not be confused with African sleeping sickness, which is transmitted by the bite of the tsetse fly, but is a frequent accompaniment of influenza and other winter diseases.

Registered with the South African Council for Educators (SACE ... Stranded without accommodation, Ndlazi resorted to sleeping on the streets of Bangkok. Despite this ordeal, she remarked on ...